Hardball

Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Akeem Owoade, lately voiced his concern over the menace of insecurity infesting Yorubaland and upsetting its historical renown as an oasis of safety, even amidst a

Ironically, First Lady Remi Tinubu’s donation of 80 compressed natural gas (CNG) buses and tricycles to Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) triggered a three-day lecture boycott by students over ongoing transportation

Old man Bode George, retired one-star general of the Nigerian Navy, may be a professed Christian.  But he appears hardly sold on the scriptural injunction that man does not live

It was a show of shame in Bayelsa State, last weekend, when some military services personnel took to open brawling during a state visit by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. It

The irony was lost on most, not the least the Ebora Owu himself! Ex-President, Olusegun Obasanjo, turned out decked in an “adire” gown, with Tinubu’s broken chains trademark crawling all

Ancient bard, William Shakespeare, once said hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. It is the same with xenophobes when their cultural worldview is infringed by outsiders. That was

It was supposed to be a grand ceremony at the historic Mapo Hall, Ibadan, Oyo State. But it was devoid of grandeur, marred by the absence of the three Ibadan

David Alechenu Bonaventure Mark, GCON, retired brigadier-general of the Nigerian Army, Senate President (2007-2015) and arch-conspirator against MKO Abiola’s June 12 mandate – is he the Rip Van Winkle of

In a condemnable case of abuse of power, Mohammed Adamu – a journalist with Albarka Radio in Bauchi State – got a raw deal from the police while covering a

The “last man standing” was the then Governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos – lone survivor of the PDP South West electoral blitzkrieg of 2003.  That swept away five of the

By hardball Award-winning folk singer, Bobby McFerrin, propounds a doctrine about not worrying over anything and being happy no matter what. In his acapella song titled ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy,’

An alarming sequence of terrorism-related violence drew attention to Borno State.  The coordinated suicide bombings in Maiduguri on the evening of March 16 represent a significant and tragic escalation in